Business strategy and sustainability are becoming more integrated than ever before, driven by increasingly strong market factors:
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies have become an essential aspect of how a company positions itself to increase its value. And with a wave of new financial disclosure requirements, especially around climate risk, it is clear that companies need to prioritize their strategies for decarbonization, circularity, and valuing nature.
- Customers continue to set high environmental and social performance standards and raise the bar for competitiveness.
- Employees continue to press companies to manage to a triple-bottom-line by putting environmental and social goals on par with profitability.
- Stakeholders expect transparency and accountability and are prepared to protest, boycott, and drive change.
Combined, these drivers are causing a transformation through a new level of innovation and competitiveness. The Green Business Lab helps participants develop successful sustainability strategies.